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Buyers agent in Moonee Ponds

Three percent a year for a decade, and the last twelve months have been the best of them.

Figures below are August 2026, suburb level, all bedroom counts. Full Moonee Valley council report.

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The Moonee Ponds numbers

Houses

$1,548,540

Typical price

$819

Weekly rent

2.75%

Gross yield

+3.0%

Growth a year, 10yr

+5.8%

Growth, last 12mth

220

Sales a year

Units

$709,722

Typical price

$646

Weekly rent

4.73%

Gross yield

+1.9%

Growth a year, 10yr

+2.5%

Growth, last 12mth

313

Sales a year

Vacancy rate 1.30% across roughly 9,733 dwellings. HtAG Analytics, suburb level, all bedroom counts. Typical price is a modelled estimate, not a median of recent sales.

The honest read

What I'd tell you over a coffee

Moonee Ponds houses have grown 3.04% a year over ten years to $1,548,540, and 5.81% in the last twelve months.

The middle of that decade was flat. Five years at 0.65% a year is the number that tells you the recent move is recent.

The yield is 2.75%, about $819 a week on a $1.5m house. That is thin, and it is the main thing working against the suburb as an investment.

Rent has grown 4.11% a year over the decade and vacancy is 1.30%, so the rental side is solid. There are more units trading than houses, 313 against 220, which tells you what has been built here.

Unit growth of 1.94% a year on a 4.73% yield. The same story as most of inner Melbourne.

220 house sales a year across about 9,733 dwellings, so the good streets do not come up often.

Who Moonee Ponds suits

Owner occupiers who want a period house six kilometres from town with a train line and a village strip. On the numbers it has been a middling investment and a very good place to live.

What I'd watch

The 2.75% yield. On a $1.5m purchase that is a large holding cost, and five year growth of 0.65% a year is not going to cover it for you.

How I work

Flat $20,000 fee, whatever you buy and wherever it is
No commissions from agents, developers or builders
I'll tell you when a suburb doesn't stack up, including this one

How the process runs

Fair questions

Buying in Moonee Ponds, answered

Is Moonee Ponds a good investment?

It has been an average one. 3.04% a year over ten years is better than most of inner Melbourne on this list, but a 2.75% yield on a $1,548,540 house makes it expensive to hold while you wait.

What is happening in the last year?

5.81% growth, the best twelve months of the decade. Five years at 0.65% a year is the context. Treat one good year as a signal to watch, not a trend to buy on.

Houses or units here?

Houses on growth, 3.04% a year against 1.94%. Units on yield, 4.73% against 2.75%. Neither is a standout. If you want inner north west growth, Coburg has done better than both.

Other Melbourne suburbs

Same treatment, same data, different answer in every one of them.

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